TCDGIT - The Home Depot - The Racing

July 13

Finally...


I almost forgot to decorate. It's easier with the car on the outside.


Smoker's corner. Lars-Inge Johansson's Blackout SS-clock he made
for my birthday.


Then I realized I needed a shelf for all my "suitcase-sized" bags and computers to get them off the floor.
The material was just laying on the outside waiting to be trashed. This shelf was made in less than
an hour and in thirty minutes more it sat on the wall...


...here it is in the middle. The other side of the garage.


I also had to fix the burned No 5 spark plug boot before driving the SS
again. Or what do you think? Don't want any short-circuit with bad
pre-ignition!


My tiny old Stanley vise from my moped youth came to good use
when fabricating the new boot.


I figured out the ultimate spot for it beforehand to minimize hot driving inside the garage. Axel guided me
and it worked first time. I need to drive up on logs under every wheel to be able get the jack under.


Welcome home Blackout SS! We can walk and work freely around the car. Not as much space as in
TBDGIT, but this is home. It took a week of work, but tomorrow I'll go with Axel elsewhere on our
vacation, far away from the garage.



July 12

Come on big boy! You can do it!


It's time to enter your new home!


Even though this garage has less space than TBDGIT I've managed to get a better order here. Maybe
because I simply had to. Yes I like arrows! =)


Especially satisfied with this corner.


And collecting all manuals, broschures, catalogues, binders etc. in one place, in that big metal drawer
with hanging folders! Up till now I have had all this stuff in many different places.


Thanks IKEA, SAAB and Volvo for plastic boxes!



July 8

Piece by piece


Not much left now to sort out before driving the SS inside. But it's getting slower and slower as I'm finding
fun stuff I've forgot about and interesting details which I like to take a look at again, and it takes
time from the work. Like the old can of Moose Juice I found...


Moose Juice


Okay kids, do you know what Moose Juice is?
Once up on a time the drivers had to bring their own trackbite to the
race tracks to improve their traction. The organizers put little or
nothing on their strips - if not a fast class was supposed to race. And
we also used trackbite at streetraces, when on slicks. VHT trackbite
(left) has been around for ever in different packagings. Then, some
25 years ago Moroso introduced the Moose Juice (which the funny
Stockholmers called "Älgkliv" - Moose Leap). I bought it for my
Whiplash Camaro and as I remember, it was extremely good!
However, I think Moose Juice was banned after a short while since
they said it fretted on the asphalt! I have some drops left for one run...




July 6 - 2009


Bye bye! See you soon again!


We moved in here in April 2005 after a whole winter's work to finish it. Now we move the Impala SS and
equipment to TCDGIT - our garage at home which we rebuilt last year - and will convert from Members
to Hangarounds of TBDGIT.
I will meet Tommy AGA Olsson and Patrick Wikström and team as often as before. TBDGIT is not a
only place, it's a state of mind. An era ends - a new starts. Thanks buddies for all the laughters!
Of course, a very sad moment in a way, especially if you look back:
>TBDGIT



Now and then Agneta checks how the work with the sorting is going...



July 5

Blackout at home again


Our neighbour Helge smiled with his whole face when he saw the
Impala again. It hasn't been home since 2004 and many things has
happened to the car since then! Axel proudly explained.


Now starts the heavy work of moving all things from The Best Damn
Garage In Town - TBDGIT...


...to TCDGIT (The Closest Damn Garage In Town). This area is much
more narrow but with smart planning and sorting it will work just fine!


We take this opportunity to throw a lot of stuff.




So this is what we wanted to do with the garage - to expand it to the length of our house. A perfect plan and our nice neighbors
said OK too. Then the City of Gothenburg said "No way" because there is a restrictive law for our area which allows a maximum
of 65 % build on the land area, since some people in the wild past built too much on their areas, out on to the sidewalk etc.
But we said this corner in the back is not used anyway and the neigbors thinks it's just fine. "No way". They didn't even care to
come and look! Years of making sketches and begging resulted in a small expansion on the front. And we still need to throw
in the money and renovate the rain water leaking and murky old garage. Red marks origin design.


Always on the outside. Old garage was as deep as the Impala SS was long. With the hitch the door
couldn't be closed. Our guess is that garages was built for the Saab V4 in 1969?